Re:Nova by Panic
by 1123581321 on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:26PM
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Over time you learn what the various shapes in the minimap represent. It helps you generate an intuitive awareness of your location and what kind of content or data precedes and follows it--which in turn gives you more of an idea of what you're currently looking at.
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You don't edit more than one file? Why would the shape meanings in one file carry over to another? Generally, the only signal that may carry over is the indentation levels. For the intuitive sense you speak of to develop, your file structures have to be highly regular across the board. TBH, I haven't even seen conventional Ruby on Rails code bases that can give me that.
Re:Nova by Panic
by 1123581321 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:00AM
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Some shapes do carry over, e.g. in SQL dumps for certain types of applications. Spending a lot of time in one file, e.g., a large Rails controller, also confers the benefit. These are just two examples.
Overall I would say that trying to notice and measure the effect isn't productive. It's just a bit of extra context I realized in retrospect.